Financial Intermediation in a Less Developed Economy: The History of the United Bank of IndiaPublisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd | ISBN: 0761936564 | edition 2008 | PDF | 328 pages | 1,4 mb

Financial Intermediation in a Less Developed Economy is an institutional narrative of a bank in a developing economy which acts as a case study and brings out the essential relationship between finance and economic development. The volume defines the financial intermediary organization and relates it to the process of economic development. In the process the authors argue that the conventional models of banking constructed for developed countries need to be complemented by institutional narratives of banking that focus on minimization of the transaction costs of finance and organization.

An overview of the Boston Fed during Edward J. McCarthy's seven decades of service.On a brilliant autumn morning in 1997, air as crisp as a New England apple, sun rising directly out of Boston Harbor, Federal Reserve President Cathy Minehan and a staff member were stuck in traffic on their way to an early meeting when the car phone rang. They both knew it was Eddie.Although it was early Eddie McCarthy known to his colleagues as the Boston Fed’s “eyes and ears” on the financial markets, had already been on the phone at his Milton home for more than an hour. He had just received word from a New York source that the previous day’s half-point uptick on the Tokyo stock exchange was being viewed positively by movers and shakers on the Street…

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